Best Music Apps for iPhone and iPad

Here’s a look at some of the most innovative music apps and services available on iDevices. These apps unlock features like music recognition, wireless streaming, music training and creation.

SoundHound (Music Recognition): Known as the world’s fastest music recognition app, it searches and identifies the name of the currently played track from a speaker. You can also hum or sing it and the app will try its best to help you remember that song. It also comes with a built-in music player with lyrics and artists info for your iPod's songs. Price: Free. Available on iTunes.

Shazam (Music Recognition): Similar to SoundHound, Shazam is another music recognition app that not only identifies the song but also provides a bunch of information for the same. It has a useful social aspect to it, as the app lets you discover new music from your Shazam friends. Additionally it has a really fun way of displaying lyrics. Price: Free. Available on iTunes.

AirMusic (Wi-Fi Streaming): This excellent app allows users to stream music from any iOS device to the XBOX 360, PS3, other compatible DLNA-enabled device or a PC with Windows Media Player. It requires no hardware as it effortlessly streams music over your Wi-Fi connection. Price: $2.99. Available on iTunes.

Magic Piano (Music Learning): If you are interested in playing the latest songs here is an app you can give a try. It has tracks from almost all the artists and additionally it allows users to download a new track everyday at no cost. It helps you with the notes as beams of light all you have to do is follow them and eventually master the track. Price: Free. Available on iTunes.

I am T-Pain (Auto-Tune): Apparently, it is not very difficult to become a musical sensation. All you need are some lyrics about money, drugs and women, leave the rest to this app. All you need to do is sing stuff and the app instantly auto-tunes it to sound like T-Pain. Price: $0.99. Available on iTunes.

KORG iKaossilator (Virtual Oscillator): This app brings you a virtual Kaoss branded synthesizer from KORG right in your palms. It is a easy to use app which lets you control sound using a virtual X-Y pad and can be used by musicians and even non-musicians to experiment with new sounds. Price: $19.99. Available on iTunes.

Animoog (Polyphonic Synthesizer): This is a professional polyphonic synthesizer app exclusively for the iPad and it is powered by Korg's new Anisotropic Synth Engine (ASE). It allows users to dynamically move through X/Y space to create and experiment with various unique sounds. It includes a variety of old school and modern pedals and synthesizers from Moog. Price: $29.99. Available on iTunes.

GarageBand (Music Making): The ultimate app for just creating some serious music, especially if you have GarageBand on OSX. You can create original loops, riffs or recorded material on the iPad and construct the song on the mac GarageBand. It’s also a great timepass app, and a party app all rolled into one, where all your friends can get together and record your very own rendition of that Abba song. Price: $4.99. Available on iTunes.

MadPad (Music Making): MadPad for iPhone and iPad by Smule is an electronic drum style intrument app, which allows you to make music out of sounds in your day-to-day life, from the band of a door, to pouring some coffee! In the app, you have a 3x4 grid of tiles, which makes a sound once you tap on them. Sets of sounds are bundled with the app, but you can also download hundreds of additional sets, right from the app for free. Price: $0.99. Available on iTunes.

Guitar Hero (Music Game): Guitar Hero, the famous game console title has been available for iOS since quite a while. The gameplay includes of tapping, swiping and holding the notes which come your way, additionally players can also use the whammy. When adding all this to increasing difficulty levels, the game keeps getting challenging and more fun. Price: $0.99. Available on iTunes.